Cormac McCarthy’s Awesome Diction By: Edward Czyrklis

All authors demonstrate their own examples of diction. In the excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, the author produces diction which is both unusual and basic. McCarthy describes the main character: “We’d never seen the like of shootin.” The author characterizes the ape: “They was a feller up there had this ape or gorilla, ever what it was.” The writer describes the day: “I think we’d drank a little whiskey too, I disremember.” Overall McCarthy’s diction is abnormal and essential.